Re: [Freesurfer] talairach.xfm

2012-02-15 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Darshan no, resection is probably trouble depending on how big it is. The talairach_afd is the automated failure detection. I can see why it would give a warning for the resected dataset, but Vincent: you should visually inspect your registration. It's not usually wrong when it warns, and f

Re: [Freesurfer] Exclude cortical region for one subject during qdec analysis

2012-02-15 Thread Michael Harms
Sorry, but no. On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 13:50 -1000, Jeff Sadino wrote: > Hello, > > > I have 200 subjects and I am analyzing their cortex in qdec. I have > several subjects that have poor cortical surfaces on a local basis. > Is there a way for exclude just one area for just one subject during

Re: [Freesurfer] talairach.xfm

2012-02-15 Thread Darshan Suryanarayan Pai
I am having the same error with one of my datasets . This subject has a good part of the brain resected . Does Freesurfer have problems dealing with partially resected brain datasets? - Original Message - I am having trouble with 2 scans that exit with errors. Both have the same error:

Re: [Freesurfer] A question about mri_convert

2012-02-15 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Jie have you tried visualizing them in freeview or tkmedit? The .img/hdr files won't have enough information to specify direction cosines without an associated .mat file. Does that exist? Does BrainSuite know how to read it? Bruce On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Jie Shi wrote: > Hi, experts. I have

[Freesurfer] A question about mri_convert

2012-02-15 Thread Jie Shi
Hi, experts. I have recently used mri_convert to convert some dicom files into both .nii and .img. But when observing in BrainSuite, I found the image orientation of the .nii and .img was not consistent. Any idea about the problem and how to make them same? Thanks a lot. Jie __

Re: [Freesurfer] A question about mri_convert

2012-02-15 Thread Bruce Fischl
what viewer did you use to decide that they weren't consistent? On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Jie Shi wrote: > Hi, experts. I have recently used mri_convert to convert some dicom files > into both .nii and .img. But when observing, I found the image orientation > of the .nii and .img was not consistent. A

[Freesurfer] A question about mri_convert

2012-02-15 Thread Jie Shi
Hi, experts. I have recently used mri_convert to convert some dicom files into both .nii and .img. But when observing, I found the image orientation of the .nii and .img was not consistent. Any idea about the problem and how to make them same? Thanks a lot. Jie

[Freesurfer] Exclude cortical region for one subject during qdec analysis

2012-02-15 Thread Jeff Sadino
Hello, I have 200 subjects and I am analyzing their cortex in qdec. I have several subjects that have poor cortical surfaces on a local basis. Is there a way for exclude just one area for just one subject during qdec analysis? For example, on some images, the patient nose is in their occipital

[Freesurfer] talairach.xfm

2012-02-15 Thread cloud . ctrl
I am having trouble with 2 scans that exit with errors. Both have the same error: talairach_afd: Talairach Transform: transforms/talairach.xfm ***FAILED*** This is actually preceded by a message stating that talairach.xfm already exists and will not be copied. If I use the --clean-tal option

Re: [Freesurfer] trac-all -prep error

2012-02-15 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Weird. Glad it got fixed, let us know if you have any more trouble. On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Chris Watson wrote: > Actually, it now works when I re-source my .bash_profile and .bashrc files. > Not sure why that would be. > Chris > > Chris Watson wrote: >> Yes, the same error. >> Chris >> >> Anas

Re: [Freesurfer] trac-all -prep error

2012-02-15 Thread Chris Watson
Actually, it now works when I re-source my .bash_profile and .bashrc files. Not sure why that would be. Chris Chris Watson wrote: > Yes, the same error. > Chris > > Anastasia Yendiki wrote: > >> When you run that bet command line outside of trac-all, does it give >> you the same error? >> >>

Re: [Freesurfer] trac-all -prep error

2012-02-15 Thread Chris Watson
Yes, the same error. Chris Anastasia Yendiki wrote: > > When you run that bet command line outside of trac-all, does it give > you the same error? > > On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Chris Watson wrote: > >> Here's output from mri_info: >> [freesurfer@occipital dmri]$ mri_info lowb.nii.gz >> Volume informat

Re: [Freesurfer] trac-all -prep error

2012-02-15 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
When you run that bet command line outside of trac-all, does it give you the same error? On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Chris Watson wrote: > Here's output from mri_info: > [freesurfer@occipital dmri]$ mri_info lowb.nii.gz > Volume information for lowb.nii.gz > type: nii > dimensions: 96 x 96

Re: [Freesurfer] trac-all -prep error

2012-02-15 Thread Chris Watson
Here's output from mri_info: [freesurfer@occipital dmri]$ mri_info lowb.nii.gz Volume information for lowb.nii.gz type: nii dimensions: 96 x 96 x 56 voxel sizes: 2.5000, 2.5000, 2.5000 type: FLOAT (3) fov: 240.000 dof: 0 xstart: -120.0, xend:

Re: [Freesurfer] trac-all -prep error

2012-02-15 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hey Chris - That is strange. The FSLOUTPUTTYPE would've been my first guess, too. Does this lowb.nii.gz actually exist? Anything looks strange when you run mri_info/freeview/fslview on it? a.y On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Chris Watson wrote: > Hello, in running trac-all -prep, I get an error saying t

[Freesurfer] trac-all -prep error

2012-02-15 Thread Chris Watson
Hello, in running trac-all -prep, I get an error saying that it can't open "lowb.nii.gz.hdr": fslroi /raid2/fmri8/fontan/volumetric/freesurfer/1.5T/cardiac/foo_b/dmri/dwi.nii.gz /raid2/fmri8/fontan/volumetric/freesurfer/1.5T/cardiac/foo_b/dmri/lowb.nii.gz 0 1 fslmaths /raid2/fmri8/fontan/volu

[Freesurfer] retinotopy analysis viewing in Freesurfer 5

2012-02-15 Thread Katie Bettencourt
I have a question about the retinotopy analysis in freesurfer 5. I was following these instructions : http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FsFastIndividualRetinotopyAnalysis with some minor edits because we don't have eccen data. And now I'm ready to view the data, but I'm confused by what I

Re: [Freesurfer] Interactions between categorical and continuous variables

2012-02-15 Thread Douglas N Greve
It looks like you want (PF+PM)-(CF+CM) which would correspond to [0 0 0 0 1 1 -1 -1]/2. This just averages the slopes for F&M in each group, then takes the difference between the average slopes. doug Katherine Reiter wrote: > Hey freesurfers, > > I'm interested in running an interaction between

Re: [Freesurfer] TRACULA bvecs question

2012-02-15 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
When I look at them with the more command on a linux machine, I see 2 lines in bval and 6 lines in bvec. Most likely this is a problem with the text files being created with a windows program like excel and not having unix-compatible end-of-line characters. It's been discussed a few times in t

[Freesurfer] Interactions between categorical and continuous variables

2012-02-15 Thread Katherine Reiter
Hey freesurfers, I'm interested in running an interaction between a continuous and categorical variable, covarying for another categorical variable. I understand that this analysis is not possible through the QDEC GUI so I am working through the command line group analysis and setting up the contr

[Freesurfer] mri_label2vol cannot allocate memory

2012-02-15 Thread Anthony Dick
Hello, I have run the following successfully, but when I have moved on to other brains I get: mri_label2vol --seg chuman_1.mgz --temp orig.mgz --regheader > chuman_1.mgz --o chuman_1.conf.mgz MRIalloc: could not allocate 975187978 frame Cannot allocate memory I am running a Mac Pro with 8GB R

Re: [Freesurfer] monte carlo simulation question

2012-02-15 Thread Douglas N Greve
Oh, sorry, I misread your email. I thought you had said you did positive and now wanted to do negative. I don't think there is a way to easily go from abs to pos or neg, you'll have to re-run. doug Govindarajan, Koushik Athreya wrote: > Ok. But when I view them using tksurfer, absolute contrast

Re: [Freesurfer] monte carlo simulation question

2012-02-15 Thread Govindarajan, Koushik Athreya
Ok. But when I view them using tksurfer, absolute contrast gives me both positive and negative contrast clusters. Even if I copy the csd files and change the header information, could I view just positive or negative significant clusters on tksurfer? Many Thanks for your help Regards Koushik _

Re: [Freesurfer] monte carlo simulation question

2012-02-15 Thread Douglas N Greve
In principal, it should be the same correction as for the positive as the simulation should be symmetrical across sign. But mechanically/programatically, I don't have an easy way to do it. You can copy the csd files to a new name and change the sign listed in the header. doug Govindarajan, Kous

Re: [Freesurfer] monte carlo simulation question

2012-02-15 Thread Govindarajan, Koushik Athreya
Many Thanks for that Doug. It worked great. I do have another question for you about monte carlo simulation. Say I run a simulation with an absolute contrast initially. After the analysis is done, if I need results for a negative contrast, is there a way to do that after the simulation or does i

[Freesurfer] Structural Group Analysis vs. DTI Group Analysis

2012-02-15 Thread Antonella Kis
Dear all, I completed my DTI group analysis at subcortical level on the CVS space and found clusters that survived by multiple comparisons. The results shows that FA is decreasing in patients vs. controls. I used then the same subject to do a structural group analysis to compare the cortical

Re: [Freesurfer] make average subject error

2012-02-15 Thread Douglas N Greve
Try running it with --no-aseg. doug Adam David Felton wrote: > Hello, > > I have run into an error while trying to make an average subject using > 200 scans. > > When I ran this command I got an error: > *make_average_subject --xform talairach.xfm --out 200avgsub --subjects* > > The error: > >

Re: [Freesurfer] monte carlo simulation question

2012-02-15 Thread Douglas N Greve
Hi Koushik, download this file and copy it into the mri/transforms directory ftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/transfer/outgoing/flat/greve/talairach.xfm Then rerun mri_glmfit-sim with the --no-sim option so that it picks up where it left off. You will need to give the "csdbase" which you passed i

Re: [Freesurfer] TRACULA question: pathstats.byvoxel.txt

2012-02-15 Thread Priti Srinivasan
Hi Minjie, The pathstats.byvoxel.txt gives the statistics of the higest probability streamline of the posterior distribution of the tract and the pathstats.overall.txt gives you average diffusion values for the whole tract. Please refer to the following: http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/

[Freesurfer] Fixing Bad Output From the Talairach Registration

2012-02-15 Thread Miguel Ferreira
Hello freesurfer group, I'm having trouble in the fixing bad output from the talairach registration step. When I click on the "Save Reg" button to save a transformation that I make the console just hangs on this message "UnZeroing CRAS for fstal output xfm". Anyone have any ideia what the problem

[Freesurfer] monte carlo simulation question

2012-02-15 Thread Govindarajan, Koushik Athreya
Hello group, I am running the multiple comparisons simulation after my mri_glmfit finished. I see that it went through all the iterations and then quit with the following error message it could not find the talairach.xfm file in my average brain. I did not use the fsaverage and instead

[Freesurfer] Repost ERROR mri_volcluster

2012-02-15 Thread Antonella Kis
Dear Doug, Can I run the mri_volcluter without --reg ? I am asking this because when I run: mri_glmfit-sim \       --glmdir GroupAnalysis_ADC.glmdir \       --grf 3 neg \       --cwpvalthresh .05 \       --overwrite gives me the following error (I also attached the log file): Also, does ne

[Freesurfer] Repost Clusters locations

2012-02-15 Thread Antonella Kis
Hi Doug, By "more exactly location" I want to say that I would like to have the MNI coordinates and also the annotation location or the nearst cortical label (for example precentral or lateraloccipital, etc). Also,after I ran the mri_segstatsI don't have the MNI coordinates. Thanks for help

Re: [Freesurfer] TRACULA bvecs question

2012-02-15 Thread Tetiana Dadakova
Sorry for bothering you again, I have another error now: "Error: bvecs and bvals don't have the same number of entries". Visually my bval/bvec files seem ok to me. I can't find the problem. I attach the files, could you please take a look on them? Thank you very much, Tanja. On Tue, Feb 14, 2012

Re: [Freesurfer] recon-all error (nu_correct problem)

2012-02-15 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi EK looks like an N3 problem. You might want to ask on the appropriate MNI list. cheers Bruce On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, EK Kim wrote: Hello, Freesurfers,   I got an error message when I trying to use recon-all function in freesurfer on the XUbuntu system installed on the VirtualBox on a Windows

Re: [Freesurfer] make average subject error

2012-02-15 Thread Bruce Fischl
it sounds like you ran out of memory. How much RAM do you have on your machine? On Tue, 14 Feb 2012, Adam David Felton wrote: Hello, I have run into an error while trying to make an average subject using 200 scans. When I ran this command I got an error:  make_average_subject --xform talairac

[Freesurfer] nu_correct error

2012-02-15 Thread Karla Zúñiga
Hello, Freesurfers, I got an error message when I trying to use recon-all function in freesurfer on the Mandriva 2008 system installed on a Linux Dell precision T3500 Machine. I was unable to find an answer in the mailing list. my SUBJECTS_DIR is : /neurospin/grip/protocols/MRI/childrenNS5_7y_Mon

Re: [Freesurfer] Question about hippocampal-subfield probability map

2012-02-15 Thread Koen Van Leemput
Hi Joshua, The "correct" way to obtain binarized maps would be to visit each voxel in turn, compute the probability that it belongs to each of the subfieds, and pick the subfield with the highest such probability. Having said that, it should not be the case that there are two or more subfields wi